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[James Valentine, Photographer] Album of 12 albumen photographic views of Scotland. c1890
by Valentine, James (and his studio)
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- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Dust Jacket Issued
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About This Item
Dundee, Scotland: Valentine, James (and his studio), 1890. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket Issued. Photography by Valentine, James (1815-1879).
Album in red pebbled cloth, edges in gilt with hand-soiling some spotting from liquid to the cloth edges are sun-faded; some fading and minor yellowing to photographs around edges; Bindings firm. Photos are attached to cardstock on hinged leaves.
12 albumen photographs mounted on boards and bound in cloth-covered, gilt-stamped album. Photographs: 13.3 by 20.3 cm (5.25 by 8 inches); boards: 17.1 by 23 cm (6.75 by x 9 inches).. James Valentine was a Scottish photographer who, with his company Valentine's of Dundee, produced Scottish topographical views from the 1860s, and later became internationally famous as the producers of picture postcards.
Valentine market was the national middle- and upper-class tourist market, with the production of both drawing room albums containing selections of photographs arranged geographically and individual landscape prints.
Photographs, captioned in negative, depict views of country and city and include views of historical buildings and monuments as well as monuments to modern industry including Edinburgh Castle, Holyrood, Stirling Castle, Ben Lomond, the Forth and Callander bridges.
Album in red pebbled cloth, edges in gilt with hand-soiling some spotting from liquid to the cloth edges are sun-faded; some fading and minor yellowing to photographs around edges; Bindings firm. Photos are attached to cardstock on hinged leaves.
12 albumen photographs mounted on boards and bound in cloth-covered, gilt-stamped album. Photographs: 13.3 by 20.3 cm (5.25 by 8 inches); boards: 17.1 by 23 cm (6.75 by x 9 inches).. James Valentine was a Scottish photographer who, with his company Valentine's of Dundee, produced Scottish topographical views from the 1860s, and later became internationally famous as the producers of picture postcards.
Valentine market was the national middle- and upper-class tourist market, with the production of both drawing room albums containing selections of photographs arranged geographically and individual landscape prints.
Photographs, captioned in negative, depict views of country and city and include views of historical buildings and monuments as well as monuments to modern industry including Edinburgh Castle, Holyrood, Stirling Castle, Ben Lomond, the Forth and Callander bridges.
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- Blind Horse Books [ABAA - FABA]
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- [James Valentine, Photographer] Album of 12 albumen photographic views of Scotland. c1890
- Author
- Valentine, James (and his studio)
- Illustrator
- Photography by Valentine, James (1815-1879)
- Format/Binding
- A Very Good Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Valentine, James (and his studio)
- Place of Publication
- Dundee, Scotland
- Date Published
- 1890
- Weight
- 0.00
- Keywords
- Scotland; albumen photographs; Mounted Photographs; 19th Century Photography; Illustrated Books & History of the Image
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art: Photography;
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